Re: [expert] Is there a linux offline news reader

[Olivier Perron]

> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Olivier Perron wrote:
> 
> > well this a little bit off topic, but anyway: does an offline news 
> > reader for linux/unix exist ? (Something like Free Agent which 
> > unfortunately only exist for ms-windows)
> 
> Reading news "offline" is very uncommon under linux and similiar OS.
> Normally you install a local newsserver and read the news from localhost.
> My favorite for doing it in this way is inn (newsserver) and tin (for
> reading)
> 
Is this also a solution for a stand alone linux box with a single ppp 
link to an ISP?

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